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Queen invites Malala to Buckingham Palace

THE Queen has invited Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot by the Taliban,
to Buckingham Palace as speculation mounts that she will be named this week
as the youngest winner of the Nobel peace prize.

The Queen is thought to have been impressed by her bravery, asking Pakistan’s
high commissioner, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, about the girl’s health.

The invitation to the palace this month comes as Malala gives her first
detailed account in today’s Sunday Times of what happened when she was shot
on the way home from school in Pakistan a year ago. The 16-year-old reveals
her terror at coming out of a coma in a Birmingham hospital six days later
with no idea where she was.